Health & Wellness

Wellness is about caring for your whole child every day — helping them build healthy habits, feel emotionally balanced, eat well, sleep soundly, stay safe, and be prepared for life’s little bumps, with expert guidance you can trust.

Common Illnesses

Doctor applies an adhesive bandage to preteen girl's arm after the girl receives a flu shot at an outdoor free clinic.

Protect Your Family This Season With a Flu Vaccine

Father checking on his sick daughter at home who might have COVID, RSV, or the flu.

Comparing Flu, COVID-19, and RSV: A Guide for Parents

Pregnant woman getting RSV immunization

Protecting Your Baby from RSV: Immunization Options

Overheated little child is sitting in front of electric fan trying to cool down.

Summer Safety: Protecting Kids from Sun, Heat and Poison Ivy

5 Tips to Keep Your Family Healthy This Flu Season

All About Walking Pneumonia in Kids

mother helping young child who is sick with parechovirus

Should Parents Worry About Parechovirus?

Wait No More: Nearly All Kids Can Now Get the

To Mask or Not to Mask? Good Question.

To Mask or Not to Mask? Good Question.

Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Made Some Teens’ Periods Irregular

Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Made Some Teens’ Periods Irregular

Omicron Is Spreading: Why You Shouldn’t Shrug It Off

Omicron Is Spreading: Why You Shouldn’t Shrug It Off

Staying Healthy While Staying Home: Nutrition & Activity

Staying Healthy While Staying Home: Nutrition & Activity

Injuries and Emergencies

Naloxone (Narcan): A Lifesaving Tool for Families

Four kids jumping into a lake on a summer day with two of the younger children wearing life vests to demonstrate proper water safety

Water Safety Tips for Kids: How to Prevent Drowning This

A Fever, Racing Heart Rate, and Altered Mental State: Why

Fire Safety: What to Know in Case of Fire

Fire Safety: What to Know in Case of Fire

Nut Allergies: What Friends and Family Need to Know | Promise: Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Nut Allergy Safety Guide for Friends, Family, and Caregivers

When Your Child Complains of Chest Pain by Thomas Craig Edwards, MD | Promise, powered by Nemours Children's Health

When Your Child Has Chest Pain

Trouble Breathing During Exercise -- It’s Not Always Asthma, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Breathing Trouble During Exercise — It’s Not Always Asthma

PICU Basics and Preventing Post Intensive Care Syndrome

PICU Basics and Preventing Post Intensive Care Syndrome

Chest Pain in Teens: When to Worry

Chest Pain in Teens: When to Worry

8 Common Running Injuries

8 Common Running Injuries

How to identify and treat eye emergencies in children, powered by Nemours Children's Health System

How to Identify and Treat Eye Emergencies in Children

How to Encourage Your Teen to Report a Concussion, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

How to Encourage Your Teen to Report a Concussion

Safety and Prevention

Healthcare professional placing a bandage on a young child’s upper arm after an immunization while the child sits on an examination table in a medical office.

Childhood Vaccines: What’s Changed and What Parents Should Know

Fresh salad on a newspaper representing headlines about produce safety and the recent cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to fresh produce.

Your Salad Made the News. Now What?

Tick hidden on a green leaf detail and little girl foots in sandals on a lawn outdoors.

Tick Bites and Lyme Disease: What Parents Should Know This

Closeup of little girl putting fluoride toothpaste on a toothbrush.

Fluoride for Kids: Benefits, Safety, and Guidelines for Parents

Measles disease. Health concept, Infectious, viral diseases. Vaccination of children against measles.

Measles: What Parents Need to Know About Recent Outbreaks

A Touching Portrait of a Mother and Her Teenage Son Sharing a Warm Hug Outdoors, Highlighting Their Close and Loving Relationship.

The HPV Vaccine: Safety, Benefits, and Common Questions From Parents

Little kids pretending to be a doctor. Shot of a cute little girl with a stethoscope examining her brother. Children playing doctors.

Creating Heart-Healthy Habits Starts in Childhood

Little boy with food allergies is admiring cakes and other sweets on the showcase in cafe or supermarket.

Life with Food Allergies: How to Adapt as Your Child

Doctor applies an adhesive bandage to preteen girl's arm after the girl receives a flu shot at an outdoor free clinic.

Protect Your Family This Season With a Flu Vaccine

Kissing bug on a leaf that carries Chagas disease

Chagas Disease: What Parents Should Know

young girl gamer sits at a computer with a Feel Free kratom drink

Feel Free Drinks and Kratom: Essential Information for Parents

Young Girl is using inhaler for asthma symptom relief during Asthma Peak Week in September

Asthma Peak Week: Why It Happens and How to Stay

Vaccines

Healthcare professional placing a bandage on a young child’s upper arm after an immunization while the child sits on an examination table in a medical office.

Childhood Vaccines: What’s Changed and What Parents Should Know

Measles disease. Health concept, Infectious, viral diseases. Vaccination of children against measles.

Measles: What Parents Need to Know About Recent Outbreaks

A Touching Portrait of a Mother and Her Teenage Son Sharing a Warm Hug Outdoors, Highlighting Their Close and Loving Relationship.

The HPV Vaccine: Safety, Benefits, and Common Questions From Parents

Doctor applies an adhesive bandage to preteen girl's arm after the girl receives a flu shot at an outdoor free clinic.

Protect Your Family This Season With a Flu Vaccine

Pregnant woman getting RSV immunization

Protecting Your Baby from RSV: Immunization Options

Wait No More: Nearly All Kids Can Now Get the

Tips for Needle Anxiety

Tips for Needle Anxiety

Is the Lower-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine OK for my Child?

Is the Lower-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine OK for my Child?

Expert Question and Answer

Expert Q&A: COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids

COVID-19 Vaccine Q & A

COVID-19 Vaccine Q & A

What You Could Miss If You Skip Your Child's Well Visit

What You Miss If You Skip Your Child’s Well Visit

Vaccines: It Doesn't Have to Hurt, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Vaccines: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt

Emotional Wellbeing

Child patient pets a facility dog during her stay and recovery at Nemours hospital.

How Animal, Art, and Music Therapy Support Healing for Children

Navigating Youth Mental Health: Resources for Parents

Some Kids Turn to Social Media When They Worry: Does

michael and nicole phelps

Nicole Phelps on Raising Resilient Kids

How to Avoid Putting Too Much Pressure on Kids

How to Avoid Putting Too Much Pressure on Kids

Tips for Needle Anxiety

Tips for Needle Anxiety

Squid Game: 10 Things Parents Need to Know

Squid Game: 10 Things Parents Need to Know

Depression Screening in Primary Care, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Depression Screening in Primary Care – Why It’s Essential

Kids and Suicide: Know the Warning Signs and How to

Anxiety in Kids: Know the Signs

Anxiety in Kids: Know the Signs

All About Animal Therapy

All About Animal Therapy

How to Lend an Empathetic Ear

How to Lend an Empathetic Ear

Nutrition

Close up of a girl holding her stomach indicating indigestion.

The Benefits of a Low FODMAP Diet: A Guide to

Photo showing close-up, elevated view of arch of chopped multi-coloured fruits and vegetables. Rainbow of chopped red, orange and yellow bell peppers, green peas, red onion and a blueberry.

Eat the Rainbow: Your Guide to Colorful Nutrition

Cute child with a basket of organic vegetables

Vegan and Vegetarian Diets for Kids: A Parent’s Guide

Little kids pretending to be a doctor. Shot of a cute little girl with a stethoscope examining her brother. Children playing doctors.

Creating Heart-Healthy Habits Starts in Childhood

Child taking piece of sugar substitute with tongs in restaurant

Are Artificial Sweeteners Safe for Kids? What Parents Should Know

Two little girls are having a water break on the running track at athletics club. One girl is standing with her hands on hips, the other is taking a big gulp of water from bottle.

Nutrition, Hydration, and Recovery for Young Athletes

girl making a face while eating a vegetable

Tips for Helping Your Picky Eater Enjoy Healthy Foods

Mother with toddler on hip holding a carton of cooking cream and checking label

Decoding Food Labels: A Pediatrician’s Guide for Parents

Healthy Spring and Summer Eating: Registered Dietitians’ Top Tips

Preventing Iron-Deficiency Anemia

Nemours Children’s Health Celebrates National Farm to School Month with

Energy Drinks & Kids: Know the Risks

Physical Fitness

How to Choose Between a Personal Trainer or Athletic Trainer

Let's Rethink How We Talk to Teens about Their Weight

Let’s Rethink How We Talk to Teens about Their Weight

Staying Healthy While Staying Home: Nutrition & Activity

Staying Healthy While Staying Home: Nutrition & Activity

Physical Activity: A Key Ingredient to Keeping Kids at a Healthy Weight, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Physical Activity: A Key Ingredient to Keeping Kids at a

A young teenage boy with a headache.

How to Handle Your Kid’s Headaches After Sports

Teens and Healthy Weight, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

How to Know if Your Teen Is at a Healthy

Sorting Out 7 Common Sports Injury Myths, by Alfred Atanda, Jr., MD, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Sorting Out 7 Common Sports Injury Myths

5 Fun Fall Activities to Keep Kids Moving, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

5 Fun Fall Activities to Keep Kids Moving

Youth Soccer: What's the Goal, , by Jessica Laniak, PT, DPT, OCS, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Youth Soccer: What’s the Goal?

Sports Specialization or Variety: Which Is Better for Kids? - From the experts at Nemours

Sports Specialization or Variety: Which Is Better for Kids?

Playing outside improves kids' vision

Outdoor Play Helps Keep Kids’ Vision in Focus

Parents’ Active Lifestyle Helps Kids Be Active Too, Powered by Nemours Children's Health System

Parents’ Active Lifestyle Helps Kids Be Active, Too